Women's Occupational Opportunities: a Cross-Cultural Test
Abstract
In this article, we use a worldwide sample of forty mostly preindustrial societies to test whether in simpler societies women have as many occupational opportunities as men do, and whether women's share of occupations rises as societies grow more complex The answers are no and no. Men have significantly more occupational opportunities than women do, and the proportion of occupations open to women does not grow as we move from simpler to more complex societies.